East Bridgewater Girl Scouts send care packs to foster kids

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Dec 5, 2017 at 12:56 PMDec 5, 2017 at 1:43 PM

With donations from several local businesses, the 4th-graders put together 25 backpacks filled with new pajamas, socks, underwear, toothbrush, toothpaste, a flashlight, a book and a small toy for foster children.

Shannon Gallagher The Enterprise SGallagher_ENT

EAST BRIDGEWATER – The Girl Scouts of East Bridgewater’s Troop 66121 put together care packages for children in foster care on Thursday.

With donations from several local businesses, the 4th graders filled 25 backpacks with new pajamas, socks, underwear, toothbrush, toothpaste, a flashlight, a book and a small toy to send to children in the foster care system.

The girls gathered at the Community Covenant Church in East Bridgewater on Thursday and created personal cards to place in each backpack.

The backpacks will be donated to the non-profit organization Friends of Foster Care, said Cheryl Maguire, a parent who helped organize the project.

“These kits are distributed to foster children on the first night they enter foster care in an effort to help children during this difficult time,” Maguire said in an email.

Maguire said she decided to organize the project after meeting Deirdre Littlefield, the founder of the Friends of Foster Care organization.

“I wanted to help her organization since I used to be a counselor in an adolescent residential facility where many of the children are involved in the foster care system,” Maguire said in an email.

The items used to fill backpacks were donated by Gymboree, Stop and Shop, Target and CVS.

“It was a great night and the girls learned valuable lessons about giving back and gratefulness,” Joanna Furtado said, a parent who assisted with the project.

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